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and subject line Re: Bug#490010: Pasting text from Pidgin into itself produces
gibberish
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regarding pasting formated text (from GUI browsers or pidgin itself) produces
gibberish
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Package: pidgin
Version: 2.4.3-1
Severity: important
Hi!
Since the update to 2.4.3 I am unable to paste anything formated into
pidgin anymore. Before I was able to paste complete paragraphs from
wikipedia including all links and formating or even as simple as chat
history for protocols that support colours without any troubles into the
input section of the chat.
Now it produces absolute gibberish. This is what I get for pasting a
link to http://xkcd.com/447/ from chat history:
㰀昀漀渀琀 猀椀稀攀㴀∀㌀∀㸀㰀愀 栀爀攀昀㴀∀栀琀琀瀀㨀⼀⼀砀欀挀搀⸀挀漀洀⼀㐀㐀㜀⼀∀㸀栀琀琀瀀㨀⼀⼀砀欀挀搀⸀挀漀洀⼀㐀㐀㜀⼀㰀⼀愀㸀 㰀⼀昀漀渀琀㸀
Currently I paste everything into gvim and from there back to pidgin to
lose the formating, such pasting works. But that is a highly
unconvenient workaround - and it loses informations on the way.
If you need any further informations, please ask me. I guess you know
where to reach me. ;)
So long,
Rhonda
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages pidgin depends on:
ii gconf2 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.6.4-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.76-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.3-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.19-3 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.10-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libgtkspell0 2.0.13-1 a spell-checking addon for GTK's T
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.3-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpurple0 2.4.3-1 multi-protocol instant messaging l
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Session Management library
ii libstartup-notification0 0.9-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.4-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxss1 1:1.1.3-1 X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii perl 5.10.0-11 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-base [perlapi-5.10.0] 5.10.0-11 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis
ii pidgin-data 2.4.3-1 multi-protocol instant messaging c
Versions of packages pidgin recommends:
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.19-2 GStreamer plugins from the "base"
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.8-4 GStreamer plugins from the "good"
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Version: 2.4.3-2
* Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-25 15:19:45 CEST]:
> * Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-25 10:20:47 CEST]:
> > * Tim Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-23 12:48:42 CEST]:
> > > Given that both I and the original reporter are using the PowerPC
> > > architecture, I strongly suspect Pidgin has some bad endianness
> > > assumptions.
> >
> > Hmm, your analysis makes it really sound like a it's an endianness bug.
> > we now only have to find in what code it might be ...
>
> You are absolutely right, btw! I did paste a text into the input box,
> selected that again, and pasted again - it came back properly. That is,
> paste anything into there, ctrl-a, ctrl-c, ctrl-v did reverse the
> mispasted stuff.
>
> With that we have at least a workaround - but no solution. But that the
> changes are reversible should give at least some ideas.
It is fixed for me again, propably with the upgrade to 2.4.3-2. No idea
if there was something fishy in the build of 2.4.3-1 on powerpc or if
there were real changes behind the curtains here - but it works for me
again.
From my point of view there is no reason to keep this bug opened any
longer.
Thanks, and sorry for the confusions surrounding this problem.
Rhonda
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